brotherhood
Recently I read some pretty sad stuff on a friend’s Facebook wall (or I guess they call it a timeline now, either way…). This guy is part of a union and the union went on strike and he decided that he couldn’t afford to go on strike, and felt is was more important to feed his family. You would have thought this guy had said that he was best friends with Hitler or that he was going on a puppy killing spree. Fellow union members were repeatedly calling him a worthless scab, criticizing his artwork (?), telling him to rip up his union card, and informing him that he was no longer considered as a part of their brotherhood. In my opinion he is probably better off. Clearly those people are very mature and loving brothers.
It reminded me of what I have seen on those gang shows on cable. These guys bullying and beating other guys and girls I guess for abandoning their “brotherhood.” What kind of brotherhood is that? A pretty shitty one if you ask me.
Unfortunately it is also very similar to another “brotherhood,” the Church. I have been called divisive and cynical so many times that I am thinking of getting those terms tattooed on my forearms. Why have I been called those things? Because I call into question the things that other people believe and teach. Here’s a news flash: it is not divisive to question other people’s views! Divisive is when you make your relationship contingent on those views, and when another person disagrees with what you think, you no longer want to be friends or whatever with that person. That is divisive. That is what Christians look like today, a bunch of dicks walking around telling other people that the only way to be part of their “brotherhood” is to agree with everything that they say, and for those of us who don’t? We are the ones that are causing the division. We are the ones causing the disunity.
If unity can only be built on agreement, we’re all screwed.
I love a church where they KNOW that they are REAL sinners. They will usually resist the temptation to get on their high horse.
I was a member of a union for 20 years. The leadership was a bunch of controlling, lying bastards. They actually threatened me and my family when I spoke out against them. They are arrogant SOB’s who thrive on other people’s money.
I find that often churches are willing to “accept” everyone as long as everyone is willing to agree with whatever that particular church’s “core” beliefs may be. I don’t know that this conditional unity is what we are called to establish.
Funny how unions started out to help the little guy, now they seem to be just as bad (maybe worse) as the guys they were out to stop.
We even have an atheist who visits our church, regularly. (he’s an old Russian guy who comes “out of tradition”)
We don’t care. We’re happy that he is there. He might hear something someday, and faith could be born.
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Unions. They are way more destructful than helpful. California used to be a powerhouse in production and the picture of economic health and prosperity. Enter in unions. Now we are near the bottom of all categories. And the people keep voting in the union puppets. We are screwed.
You don’t yell “God-hater” at the atheist? Man, you guys are bad Christians!
Way to go union!
Destroyed another business and taken away the livelihoods of hundreds at Hostess. And at this time of year. Ho-ho-ho.
Yeah, actually that was the strike that I mentioned at the beginning of the post. Too bad for my friend, who wasn’t even participating in the stupid strike!
18,000 workers out of a job. All because the union didn’t like the contract.
Absolutely ridiculous.